Congrats! I went through training at that prototype ten years ago. That period in my life stands out as the most hours I ever studied in a week - 15 hr days, 7 days a week with changing shifts for 6 months just to survive the final review board. I had some shipmates that only needed 8 hrs a day (dam# them!). One thing is for sure, my time in the Navy/subs makes the civilian work I do now seem like a party!
Congrats from an ex-nuke ET. It's a heckuva thing making it through the school. Going through the whole nuke ET program way back when, I was told that overall it was ranked as the third hardest school in the country. Didn't see the sun for weeks on end going through power school.
Yeah, Arlen says some of his fellows are "Crazy smart" and he is about 97-99 percentile himself.
I went through a few years before you did, in Orlando. Sounds like it didn't change a bit--I hated the b#st@rds that could do it in just a few extra hours a week, too!!